Dates for Utah Fall sessions!

Hi, friends!  Happy Autumn. It's crazy to me that it is actually Autumn, since I spend the last weekend in the North East of the states where it was around 85-95 degrees! Insane. However I'll take heat over rain and wind anyday for photoshoots :)

I wanted to update you all on some available times for photoshoots this October, in case you have forgotten to schedule a photographer for your family photos. Here they are, with locations included. I can also be available at locations of your choice any day from October 4-15th in the MORNING time. :)

October 4th: Park City Aspen Tree setting

October 6th: Albion Basin or other Mtn. setting near SLC

October 12th: Orchard in Provo

October 13th: Albion Basin or other Mtn setting

October 15th: Provo Orchard

October 21st: Alpine Loop (near Aspen Grove Camp)

If you have any questions on booking, want to book a motion session, or have additional times you want to inquire about, please email us at bluelilyphoto@gmail.com!

Here is a recent Photo + Motion session in Albion Basin:

Changes

For the last two years, our family has experienced a lot of change. When your family spends a lot of time publicly sharing your life together online, in great detail and picture, one adventure after another, it’s really hard to keep sharing your life when things don’t go as planned. Tyler and I always wanted Blue Lily to be two things- a positive place online where people can come and read our stories of travel and life experiences, and an uplifting experience in person where we could bond with people through taking portraits. 

Early last year, Tyler and I separated. Yes, it was every bit as hard as you can imagine. So much change and emotion and uncertainty. It’s been really hard to talk about publicly. Especially since we have remained close friends and business partners, and most importantly, we are committed to each other as a parenting team. 

Now seems like a time when we can both come to our readers and clients and tell you what’s been going on behind the scenes, and we really hope that you can understand why we weren’t super sure about how to do this for so long. I suppose we finally realized that even though we are divorced, we have found a happy balance once again in our family, and we can trust that you won’t change your feelings about us. 

We feel normal again. Isaac and Isabelle are thriving, Blue Lily Photo is growing and stretching, and we are still the same people. We are a divorced couple who goes on an occasional work trip or camping vacation together. We eat dinner together, walk the kids to school together, laugh together, snowboard together, and have learned how to be this new kind of family together. 

Trust us, great things are ahead, just like so many wonderful things we’ve been lucky to experience in the past. Please don’t give up on us. We are Wendy and Tyler, Isaac and Isabelle. We are Blue Lily Photo. We want to hang out with you and know you and photograph you and laugh with you. And we certainly want to keep you as friends. Thanks for tuning in, we appreciate you all.

My whip

For the last year I've been driving a car that defies all stereotypes for a person like me. A mom, middle aged, relatively boring. 

I drive a Subaru WRX. Yep, that's the car that 18-24 year old boys all lust after. Speedy, manual shift, quick, compact. I have no business in such a car! But here I am, driving it daily. 

Each time I go to a Jiffy Lube or similar business to get my car's oil changed, the 19 year old male employees go nuts. "Wow, is this your car?" they'll ask, with a confused look on their face. "Yes," I'll respond, sheepishly. "THIS IS MY DREAM CAR!" They will undoubtedly exclaim every single time. "DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THIS CAR?"

Truth is, I didn't like the car at all, mostly because I'm a spoiled brat and somewhat because having a manual transmission car seems incredibly useless to me (if a car can shift itself, why would I want to go through the effort myself?); but also because I'm a 97 year old woman with sciatica trapped in a 38 year old woman's body. Getting in and out of it is hard because it's low to the ground, and pushing the super-hard-to-push clutch down to shift is kinda painful. 

However, I'm proud to say that I have embraced the car as my destiny, and I have finally discovered deep down that I have a natural, carnal need for speed. That car is freaking fun and FAST. So, while I am a suburban mom, I no longer have any hesistation to put on my mom jeans, throw my kids and dog in the car, and bolt to the grocery store, Fast and the Furious style.

Don't you wish you drove my whip?

Images from Raleigh, NC

BLUE LILY | Lifestyle Photographer | Salt Lake City, Utah

Night Photography Workshop!

We are workshopaholics over here! 

I'll be doing a really fun, inexpensive workshop on May 20th in the mountains of SLC, focused on night photography! I AM SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Night photography is a new passion of mine and I am really excited anytime I get a chance to do it. 

Here are the details:

When: Saturday, May 20, 8:30 pm- 10:30pm

Where: the hills/mountains above City Creek Canyon in SLC. (high Avenues neighborhood)

Cost: $19. Yes. $19. 

What to bring:  You will need a tripod, a DSLR camera (run the camera by me if you have concerns), clothing appropriate for whatever weather is that day, a flashlight.

This is going to be a really fun, interactive, inexpensive way to explore night photography and learn the basics, plus get some awesome shots of your own! Included in the $19 is a pdf outlining the techniques of long exposures so you can be a little prepared when you get there.

**** In case of bad weather that day, we will reschedule for another date TBA. We need clear skies and minimal wind.